“A Bastard Immigrant, son of a whore” — this is the unflattering but accurate  description of one of this country’s most brilliant founders, Alexander Hamilton, who became the nation’s first […]

It’s too easy to characterize women performers as sex objects rather than talented, charismatic people. Handsome men — such as Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Tom Selleck, Brad Pitt, etc. — […]

As with so many monster movies, The Humans,  like The Blob, The Shining, and The Bad Seed is a simple title but with horrific implications. Out of an ordinary occasion we encounter troubling, mysterious circumstances. The difference between “The Humans” […]

Mildred Pierce, the HBO five-part miniseries now streaming on HBO Max,  is premised on the 1941 novel of the same title by James M. Cain. This makes twice that Cain’s potboiler has been adapted […]

Premised on the novels by author Sherryl Woods, Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix series inspired by the romantic and dramatic sensibilities ensconced in  the eleven book series that comprise Woods’s various volumes and  focus on the joys and tribulations of […]